Attachment for type-forming machines



No. 625,679. Patented May 23, I899.

V c. A. HOLLENBECK & n. r. WILSON.

ATTACHMENT FDR TYPE FORMING MACHINES.

(Application filed my 12, 1897.)

(No Model.)

fif A 1 J WITNESSES A TTORNEYS.

NlTED STATES I PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. HOLLENBECK AND RICHARD F. WILSON, or ALBANY,-

- NEW YORK.

ATTACHMENT FOR TYPE-FORMING MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 625,679, dated May 23, 1899. Application filed May 12,1897. $eria1 No. 686,232. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES A. HOLLEN- BECK and RICHARD F. WILSON, of Albany, in the county of Albany and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved At- .tachment to Type Forming Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to assembling-slides for type-forming machines forming linotype or line slugs, and has for its object to facilitate the alinement of tabulated matter, and particularly that form of tabulated matter wherein two tables are arranged horizontally side by side. culty has been experienced in preserving the alinement of the tables owing to the fact that the matrices differ in width,and consequently by no system of calculation can a good verticalalinementbepreservedatalltimes. The method generally employed consists in casting a line of one table on one slug and aline of the other. on the other slug and then after cutting oif the blank portions of the slugs to place the portions of the slugs containing the tables end to end; but this is a slow and tedious operation. By our improvement we are enabled to cast on one slug a portion of each table and at the same time maintain an alinement of the tables with the same precision and accuracy as a printer would a divided line of type in an ordinary composing-stick.

We will describe an attachment for typeforming machines embodying our invention, and then point out the novel features in the appended claims. 7

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is an elevation of a portion of a type-forming machine,sl1owing our invention as applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of an assembling-slide with the ordinary upright thereon and also showing a sliding upright or partition in accordance with our invention. Fig. 3 is a section substantially on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2, but showing also the usual side bars on which the matrices are supported, the matrices being indicated in dotted lines. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section In this class of Work great diffion the line of the screws shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a side elevation showing a modified construction, and Fig. 6 is a perspective View of a portion of the slide and side barswith our invention attached to the slide.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates an assembling-slide movable between the usual uprights 1, on which the matrices are supported in the usual manner. The assemblingslide has the ordinary adjustable stop-block 2 thereon, designed to engage with the usual fixed stop 3. Attached to the assemblingslide is a fixed upright 4, also in ordinary form, and in connection withthis upright 4 we employ an upright or partition 5, which is mounted adjustably on the side of the assembling-slide, as plainly shown in the drawings. The adjustable upright 5 is provided at its lower end with a lug 7, movable in a guideway or channel 8 formed in the assembling-slide, and which may be held in its adjusted position by means of a screw 9, pass-- ing through a slot inv said assembling-slide and engaging with a nut 10. p

In Fig. 5 we have shown ,two uprights 11 12. These uprights 11 and 12 are connected together and may be placed upon the assembling-slide after removing the ordinary upright 4. The assembling-slide will have a register 13 marked on it, indicating pica ems and half ems.

In operation to get the proper length of the first portion of a line in the table the opera tor loosens the screw 9 and moves the upright 5 along the slot 8 to the desired position, which would be a distance from the upright 4 equal to aboutone-half the length of a slug. Having now practically divided the assemblingslide into two parts, the operator composes or assembles the matrices for the first line of the table at the right of the upright 5, with the first matrix abutting against the same. The set-up matter is then moved manually be tween the uprights 4 and 5, with the first matrix against the upright 4, and if the said matter should fail to fill the space between the two uprights the said space is filled with a slug or slugs, and in this style of Work expansible spaces are not required. Having set up the first part of the line, the matrices for the remainder of the line of the table will be asse mbled to the right of the upright 5 in the usual way with the ordinary automatic space-bars, so that the first matrix will rest against the gage, whereby the initial letters of the first line of the table will be in line with the right-hand side of the upright or partition. This operationis repeated in each line of the two tables, so that the initial letters of the several lines of each table will be in vertical alinement. WVhen not in use, the upright or partition 5 maybe removed, leaving the assembling-slide with its original measure. The marking of the assembling-slide with ems and half ems of pica enables the operator to secure any desired space without trouble or delay. The result above described may be reached by the fixed device shown in Fig. 5.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a type-forming machine, the combination with an assembling-slide, of a fixed upright thereon, an adjustable upright thereon, and means for rigidly holding the adjustable upright as adjusted, substantially as specified. 2. In a type-forming machine, an assembling-slide having a scale thereon, a fixed upright on the slide, an upright movable on the slide, and means for rigidly holding the movable upright in its adjusted position on the slide, substantially as specified.

3. In a type-forming machine, the combination with an assembling-slide, of two uprights on the slide, the said uprights being fixed or stationary with relation to the slide,

when in operative position, substantially as specified.

CHARLES A. HOLLENBECK. RICHARD F. WILSON. \Vitnesses: v

THOMAS F. DRUM, THOMAS D. FITZGERALD. 

